I'm a new member, and I have a question:
What is the real explanation for the Babe's stats?
How was he, and he alone, about to outhit the entire game during his own era? His HR and slugging totals were amazing, but how was he able to outhomer whole teams? Statistically, it doesn't make any sense. No one has done this before or since. His totals just fall so far out of the normal curve that I can't think of an explanation that is obvious.
Was he a specimen? I don't really think it was the parks or the ball. Was it all the carbs in the beer? He couldn't have been the only one drinking it. I'm sure he wasn't working out.
I remember Bob Matthias, the Olympic decalthlon champion in the 50's saying that he thought he won his gold medals over the Europeans because he could get and drink milk, and they couldn't.
What is it? I'm dying to know.
What is the real explanation for the Babe's stats?
How was he, and he alone, about to outhit the entire game during his own era? His HR and slugging totals were amazing, but how was he able to outhomer whole teams? Statistically, it doesn't make any sense. No one has done this before or since. His totals just fall so far out of the normal curve that I can't think of an explanation that is obvious.
Was he a specimen? I don't really think it was the parks or the ball. Was it all the carbs in the beer? He couldn't have been the only one drinking it. I'm sure he wasn't working out.
I remember Bob Matthias, the Olympic decalthlon champion in the 50's saying that he thought he won his gold medals over the Europeans because he could get and drink milk, and they couldn't.
What is it? I'm dying to know.
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